Simple Times, Amy Sedaris
Simple Times, Amy Sedaris
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Simple Times
Crafts for Poor People

Author: Amy Sedaris

Narrator: Amy Sedaris

Unabridged: 2 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/02/2010

Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling craft guide that inspired the hit new TV show, At Home With Amy Sedaris

It's often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In Simple Times, Amy Sedaris sets the record straight and delivers a book that will forever change the world of crafting. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.

You will discover how to make popular crafts such as Pompom Ringworms and Seashell Toilet Seat Covers, all while avoiding the most common crafting accidents (sawdust fires, feather asphyxia, pine cone lodged in throat). You will cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, with many more recipes and craft ideas that will inspire you to create your very own hastily constructed obscure d'arts.

Praise for Simple Times
"Amy Sedaris is a kookier, kitschier version of Martha Stewart...Simple Times is an ideal gift for the crafter who has crafted everything." - Associated Press

"A wildly cheeky guide." -- InStyle

"For anyone who's ever collected hats crocheted together...or simply for fans of Amy Sedaris and her idiosyncratic sense of humor." -- New York Times Book Review

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy on November 30, 2010

Dear Amy. I loved your new book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People, but I have a few comments. First of all, I made your crab claw roach clips. Unfortunately, I was showing them off to some of my friends at a local restaurant when I noticed that the table of police officers at the next table were......more

Goodreads review by Sara on April 02, 2014

I have no idea who the audience for this book is, and further I'm confused as to how this got made. Obviously the author(s) had a lot of fun and enlisted a lot of talented people to create, stage, and photograph awful crafts reminiscent of the 70s. But intermixed with the parody are periodic actual......more

Goodreads review by Dave on December 04, 2015

Amy Sedaris says ugly people do crafts and beautiful people have sex. :) This is a great and funny book with some actual crazy crafts you may want to try. It gets to be both craft book and a parody of craft books. Coffee table book, so that if you just were to see it, you would think it is straight......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on August 08, 2012

This tongue-in-cheek guide to crafting is not for everyone. It jokingly gives tips and instructions on how to make various things, but never takes itself seriously, not should it. I loved the Ten Commandments of Crafting, which included, “Thou shalt not fill envelopes with glitter and confetti and s......more

Goodreads review by Mayda on April 03, 2012

This craft book which targets crafts that poor people can afford to make is surely one-of-a-kind. And who better to explore the subject than Amy Sedaris! This audio version is enhanced by the sage advice of the Woodchucks, Gene and Jean, and by the musical interludes. You will learn about things tha......more

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